- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pirune onate, porcelain sherd.
- Long description
- Pirune onate, porcelain sherd, originally part of a bowl together with 2024.20.115-116 and 2024.20.118-119. Probably Chinese. Monne (sacred) porcelain, used in ritual and exchange at marriage as a clan valuable. The sherd has a blue floral pattern on its exterior and a plain interior.
- Cultural groups
- Nuaulu
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 01/05/1970
- Date collected
- 01/05/1970
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 14 August 2024
- Materials and processes
- Material Porcelain Pottery, Process Moulded, Process Fire-Hardened, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Printed, Process Glazed
- Dimensions
- Length 85 mm, Width 50 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2024.20.117 Other numbers: 1970.92
- Research and responses
Monne (sacred) porcelain; original constituted clan sacred valuables used in ritual and exchange at marriage; see 'Ellen, Nuaulu Religious Practices, pp. 51-2'.
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